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Reuven Firestone is an American Academic staff and historian of religion, who serves as the Regenstein Professor in Medieval Judaism and Islam at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's Skirball Campus in Los Angeles and Affiliate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California.
Firestone earned his B.A. at Antioch College, his M.A. and Semikhah from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1982, and was awarded his Ph.D. in Arab studies and Islamic studies from New York University in 1988. His scholarship focuses on Jewish studies, the Hebrew Bible and its exegesis, the Quran and its exegesis, Islamic–Jewish relations, religious phenomenology, comparative religion, and interfaith dialogue. He has researched and written extensively on the topics of religious violence and holy war in Islam and Judaism.
He is currently recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in Berlin and Sigi Feigel Visiting Professorship for Jewish Studies at the University of Zürich. He served as vice president of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) and president of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA).
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